Wednesday, December 14, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 14 December 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:38)
How Do We Understand Our Place in History and the Morality of History?: The View of History Revealed in Yesterday’s White House Ceremony Celebrating Gay Marriage
Part II (09:38 - 18:55)
Vice President Harris Says “This is a Victory, and This is a Part of a Larger Fight”: The Interconnectedness of LGBTQ Issues Abortion, and Contraception for the Left — But You Won’t Find Any of Them in the Constitution
- White House Invites Drag Performers to Same-Sex Marriage Bill-Signing Celebration by National Review (Caroline Downey)
Part III (18:55 - 26:30)
Justice Delayed is Not Always Justice Denied: Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, Lockerbie Bomb Maker, Will Finally Face U.S. Court on Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 14, 2022. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:11.9 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.6 | You would think that the big headline yesterday was President Biden signing into law the |
| 0:17.7 | so-called Respect for Marriage Act, and thus offering federal legislative protection for |
| 0:23.6 | so-called same-sex marriage rights. |
| 0:26.4 | That was a big story yesterday. |
| 0:28.1 | But what I want us to see is the story within that story, or you might even say the story |
| 0:32.4 | behind that story, which comes down to a huge question that should be of concern to Christians. |
| 0:38.2 | And that is, how do we understand history? |
| 0:40.1 | How do we understand our place in history? |
| 0:43.4 | And the moral demands of history. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, let's go back to what actually happened yesterday. |
| 0:47.4 | I want us to look at some of the language. |
| 0:50.0 | What did place yesterday beginning at three o'clock Eastern time there on the lawn at |
| 0:54.3 | the White House was an array of federal officials, including Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority |
| 0:59.6 | Leader, Democrat of New York, Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing Speaker of the House, Democrat |
| 1:05.2 | of San Francisco, and then the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, and |
| 1:09.7 | the President of the United States, Joe Biden. |
| 1:12.9 | Every one of them wanted to make the ceremony yesterday very personal. |
| 1:18.8 | Every one of them wanted basically to claim a moral victory in the legislation that |
| 1:23.8 | codifies so-called same-sex marriage. |
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